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-	[[Image:Toulouse Lautrec in drag.jpg |thumb|right|200px|"[[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]]" in the clothes of [[Moulin Rouge]] showgirl [[Jane Avril]], photo by [[Nadar]], [[1894]].]]	+	#REDIRECT [[Nadar]]
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-	'''Nadar''' was the [[pseudonym]] of '''Gaspard-Félix Tournachon''' ([[April 6]] [[1820]] – [[March 21]] [[1910]]), a [[French photographer]], [[caricaturist]], [[journalist]], [[novelist]] and [[balloon (aircraft)|balloonist]].	+
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-	==Biography==	+
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-	Nadar was born in 1820 in [[Paris]] (although some sources state [[Lyon]]). He was a caricaturist for ''[[Le Charivari]]'' in [[1848]]. In [[1849]] he created the ''Revue comique'' and the ''Petit journal pour rire''. He took his first photographs in [[1853]] and in [[1858]] became the first person to take [[aerial photograph]]s.	+
-	Around [[1863]], Nadar built a huge (6000 m³) hot air balloon named ''Le Géant'' ("The Giant"), thereby inspiring [[Jules Verne]]'s ''[[Cinq semaines en ballon]]'' (''[[Five Weeks in a Balloon]]''). The "Géant" project was unsuccessful and convinced him that the future belonged to heavier-than-air machines. Afterwards "The Society for the Encouragement of Aerial Locomotion by Means of Heavier than Air Machines" was established, with Nadar as president and [[Jules Verne]] as secretary.	+
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-	On his visit to [[Brussels]] with the ''Géant'', on [[September 26]], [[1864]], Nadar erected mobile barriers to keep the crowd at a safe distance. Up to this day, mobile barriers are known in Belgium as ''Nadar barriers''.	+
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-	In April [[1874]], he lent his photo studio to a group of painters, thus making the first exhibition of the [[Impressionism|Impressionists]] possible. He photographed [[Victor Hugo]] on his death-bed in [[1885]]. He is credited with having published (in [[1886]]) the first ''photo-interview'' (of famous chemist [[Michel Eugène Chevreul]], then a centenarian), and also took [[Erotic photography|erotic photographs]].	+
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-	On his passing in [[1910]], Nadar was buried in [[Le Père Lachaise Cemetery]] in Paris. The character of "Michel Ardan" in Verne's ''[[De la Terre à la Lune]]'' (''[[From Earth to the Moon]]'') is inspired by Nadar.	+
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